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Snapchat may soon be your go-to destination for movie tickets. The photo sharing app may be moving close to a more regular ticket buying experience, according to an executive at movie ticketing company Fandango.  

Robots have been used for everything from  greeting bank customers  to  grabbing a slice  of pizza — and now they seem to be venturing further into law enforcement. A six-hour police standoff in a Southern California desert ended on Sept. 8 when a robot was used by police to take away the rifle of an attempted murder suspect.

You need to keep reading! Because small business marketing doesn't have to be costly. The following small business marketing ideas will help you (re)discover your love for marketing and show you how you can promote yourself to eager new clients who’re dying to find a business like yours! Large companies and giant corporations may be able to funnel hundreds or even thousands of dollars to market their brand to new customers at the drop of a hat, but that doesn’t mean that, as a new small business owner, you need to do the same in order to stay in the game.

Overview Python is a wonderful programming language and much more. One of its weakest points is packaging. This is a well-known fact in the community. Installing, importing, using and creating packages has improved over the years, but it's still not on par with newer languages like Go and Rust that could learn a lot from the struggles of Python and other more mature languages.  In this tutorial, you'll learn everything you need to know to build and share your own packages. For general background on Python packages, please read  How to Use Python Packages .

An emoji is a specific type of pictorial icon. In this tutorial, we will draw a set of car and van emojis in Photoshop using its amazing vector feature. We will start by drawing a standard van and car and then turn them into other cars, such as an ambulance, firetruck, taxi, and police car. I hope you like it.

The protracted question of who is buying beleaguered  Yahoo  may finally have an answer. According to three reports published today, and our own sources, Verizon (which owns TechCrunch by way of AOL) is now the most likely company to snap up the company’s core assets — which include its search, content, mobile and advertising business — and possibly also some real estate, for around $5 billion. A final decision could come in the next few days, meaning possibly as soon as today, Monday, or Tuesday.

Phishing  scams—the ones that try to get you to  provide private information  by masquerading as a legitimate company—can be easy to uncover with a skeptical eye, but some can easily get you when you let your guard down for just a second. Here's how you can boost your phishing detection skills and protect yourself during those times when you're not at full attention. Want to test your phishing IQ and find out what kind of scams you're most likely to miss?  Take this test .

The gaffe-ridden Republican convention came to a triumphant end Thursday night with a flurry of balloons, fireworks and the unmistakable riff of Free's classic "All Right Now." As the party danced the night away and others celebrated the end of the longest nominee acceptance speech in the last four decades, a pinned tweet on Free singer Paul Rodgers' Twitter page made his feelings about the use of the song abundantly clear.

When retailers like  Target  get hacked and lose million and millions of customers' data, they usually apologize and offer a year or so of credit monitoring services to make amends. With  Neiman Marcus ,  Michaels  and Home Depot  also struggling with data breaches, there's no reason to wait for them to throw you a bone. Here's how you can monitor your own credit, for free, for as long as you want.

Identity theft has topped the  list of consumer complaints  filed with the FTC for 13 consecutive years and there's no evidence that this year it won't make the list for the 14th. Just how many victims of identity theft are there each year? While we don't yet have the figures for 2013, a Javeline  report  puts the numbers from 2012 at 12.6 million. This post originally appeared on  Credit Sesame .

Last week, health insurer Anthem lost  over 80 million patient records , including sensitive information like social security numbers, email and physical addresses, and more. The fallout has already started, with Anthem customers  getting bombarded with phishing scams . If you're an Anthem customer—or are just worried about the next hack—here's what you need to do to protect yourself.

WikiLeaks firmly believes in radical transparency, the idea that the world would be better if there were no secrets. That level of transparency can be used for good, like the time the site published a video called “ Collateral Murder ” showing innocent journalists shot to oblivion by US troops in 2010. But not always.

 WikiLeaks  published over 19,000 emails from top U.S. Democratic National Committee members , then  announced it in a tweet . Those emails contained the personal information of many donors, including credit card numbers, social security numbers, and even passport information. Here’s how to see if your personal information was leaked.

Tesla is doing its part to slash the sticker prices on its vehicles. On Wednesday, the electric-vehicle automaker introduced its Model X 60D, which carries a starting price tag of $64,500 (after incentives), compared to the original Model X’s $80,000 starting price.

A recent  Pew report  found that a majority of Americans believe that  most human jobs could be automated by 2065 . With tech giants like  Google and Chrysler collaborating  to produce autonomous passenger vehicles, as well as  new tech firms like Otto  positioning themselves to revolutionize the commercial transportation industry, many are already discussing how we’ll handle history’s first slew of “driverless” experiences.